2015-2016

Introduction

Phil Smith

LO1 Understand the functions of website hosting Task 1 complete the 8 web pages started last week.

Extension: If you have previous HTML experience add a stylesheet for various elements of your pages.

Make sure the eight pages each have navigation to link them together.

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LO1 Understand the functions of website hosting Learning outcome 1 is about:

Hosting (we stared to look into this last week)

Functions

Platforms

Scripting technologies

Legislation

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The scenario Through out this unit (and in other units) we shall be

working with a specific scenario in mind.

The scenario will be used in all assignments where appropriate.

The scenario is based upon a small company and the details are on the wiki.

MWS Case study.

Bear this in mind with the activities you do.

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LO1 Hosting Hosting:

methods eg website hosting, shared hosting, dedicated hosting, server co-location.

hosting packages and services; domain names; costs; network uptime.

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LO1 Hosting Task 3 Hosting:

Produce a dictionary of terms and add definitions/explanations for the following -

website hosting,

shared hosting,

dedicated hosting,

server co-location.

hosting packages and services;

domain names;

network uptime.

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LO1 functions Functions:

services - eg web management, email management, domain management, ftp management, file management, shopping cart,

client support - performance eg reliability,

Availability - network uptime, access speeds, bandwidth; back-up; log analysis tools; security features.

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LO1 functions All websites require functions to help build/maintain

the site. For services you need some/all of these services.

web management,

email management,

domain management,

ftp management,

file management,

shopping cart,

For client support - performance eg reliability,

For Availability - network uptime, access speeds, bandwidth; back-up; log analysis tools; security features.

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LO1 functions For client support –

performance e.g.

Reliability.

For Availability -

network uptime,

access speeds,

bandwidth;

back-up;

log analysis tools;

security features.

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LO1 functions Task 4 Functions:

On your web pages add content that explains (with examples where appropriate) the following -

services

client support

Availability

(hint use paragraph tags <p></p>)

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LO1 Platforms Platforms:

operating systems eg:

Unix,

Linux,

Microsoft

What platforms will we be using?

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Apache both locally and using our web hosting service

IIS – locally and perhaps via a virtual Microsoft server.

LO1 Scripting technologies Scripting technologies:

server-side

e.g.

Hypertext Pre-Processor (PHP),

Active Server Pages (ASP),

ASP.NET,

My-SQL (Structured Query Language)

Common Gateway Interface (CGI)/ (Perl)

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LO1 Legislation Legislation:

accessibility,

data protection,

distance selling,

privacy and electronic communications.

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LO1 Legislation task Legislation:

Research the legal requirements for an e-commerce website and add the details to one of more of your web pages.

Extension: Try adding images to your pages which support your text.

<img src=“yourpicture.xxx” alt=“text” />

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Environment Visual Studio 2015

For ASP.net

PHP

MySql

Windows server 2012

Linux hosting site

Dreamweaver

Packages

docuWiki

Wordpress

Your own

FileZilla

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Independent study Week 1 – Research

Produce a set of slides on the most important new features of HTML 5

Include sample code which illustrates the advantage(s) of the new features used.

These will be presented at the start of the next lesson.

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What have we learnt today?You tell me!

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